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a five-hour energy drink or monster energy drink and for some of them when you turn the container to the back it's not sold as a beverage, it's being sold as a dietary supplement. in other words, like a vitamin or a mineral. there's a reason for that. because if it's sold as a beverage, there are some strict regulations on the amount of caffeine that can be included. for a dietary supplement, the regulations not there, at least not the same way they would be for beverages. people are led to believe these products have been approved by the f.d.a. and pose no risk. in reality, unlike drugs, or over-the-counterdrugs, dietary supplements are not reviewed and tested by the f.d.a. for safety or effectiveness before being sold to the american public. that will come as a surprise to at a lot of people. most dietary supplements today are safe and they're used by millions of americans as part of their personal choice for a healthy lifestyle. that's not true of all supplements. in 2002, a 16-year-old boy named sean riggins from lincoln, illinois a few miles away from my home in springfield died
a five-hour energy drink or monster energy drink and for some of them when you turn the container to the back it's not sold as a beverage, it's being sold as a dietary supplement. in other words, like a vitamin or a mineral. there's a reason for that. because if it's sold as a beverage, there are some strict regulations on the amount of caffeine that can be included. for a dietary supplement, the regulations not there, at least not the same way they would be for beverages. people are led to...
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Mar 26, 2013
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the president's proposed five e's are a good example of those, employment, education, environment, energy, and the rule of law. i added an "a" yesterday, which is in our report as well, and that is accountability in transparency in each of the areas, by government for the people. now, there may be views on what should be done in the areas, but that's precisely what a national accord process does, and, bob noted that at the community level, there's already a significant amount of consensus about what has to be done, and those voices need to be heard informing a national consensus in a national govern pact. the elite must recognize their own responsibility to shape the national consensus, and it must include their paying all their taxes in order to provide state with the resources it needs to fund basic health, education, and infrastructure. you know, haiti remains a country of great contrast. the families who live in the estates and those in the gullies alongside the roads leading up to the estates, the contrast is also in the investment of $3 billion in three years, yet, haiti has dropped
the president's proposed five e's are a good example of those, employment, education, environment, energy, and the rule of law. i added an "a" yesterday, which is in our report as well, and that is accountability in transparency in each of the areas, by government for the people. now, there may be views on what should be done in the areas, but that's precisely what a national accord process does, and, bob noted that at the community level, there's already a significant amount of...
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Mar 18, 2013
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now, alternate energy research might be necessary but shouldn't the department of energy do it? why should the department of defense do it when we can't fly our airplanes? section 1822 prohibits the retirement of the c-23 sherpa aircraft. the army is currently retiring or divesting the remainder of its fleet of old limited duty c-23's, all of which are flown by the army national guard. the army neither wants nor needs these aircraft. the air force neither wants nor needs these aircraft. last year, congress granted the army authority to give these planes to any state governor who wanted them, and guess what? no takers. now we prevent the army from retiring these limited utility aircraft. and another provision provides $15 million for a -- quote -- "incentive program that directs the department of defense to overpay on contracts by an additional 5% if the contractor is a native hawaiian-owned company. now, if there is ever, if there is ever an example of the special interest pork-barrel spending that goes on in this body and infuriates the american people, it's this. $15 million o
now, alternate energy research might be necessary but shouldn't the department of energy do it? why should the department of defense do it when we can't fly our airplanes? section 1822 prohibits the retirement of the c-23 sherpa aircraft. the army is currently retiring or divesting the remainder of its fleet of old limited duty c-23's, all of which are flown by the army national guard. the army neither wants nor needs these aircraft. the air force neither wants nor needs these aircraft. last...
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Mar 21, 2013
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we have provisions in the spending programs of this country that invest in energy security, and that's subject to sequestration because it's an appropriation bill, but we have provisions in the tax code that gives special breaks to the oil and gas industry. these are expenditures. these are revenues that we're hemorrhaging. they should be at least under the same scrutiny as the appropriation bills. and what the budget is saying is that we can get some savings from these tax expenditures, and which we use that for is to get our debt under control. and senator murray, you're absolutely right. one of the huge differences between the democrats and republicans is that the republicans want to reduce the tax breaks for middle-class families to give bigger tax breaks for high-income families. we say we can make the tax code more efficient and have a budget that allows for the growth of the middle class and to manage our debt in a more -- better way. bottom line, this budget produces $4.25 trillion over the ten-year window compared to simpson-bowles which was $4 trillion. it's even more deficit
we have provisions in the spending programs of this country that invest in energy security, and that's subject to sequestration because it's an appropriation bill, but we have provisions in the tax code that gives special breaks to the oil and gas industry. these are expenditures. these are revenues that we're hemorrhaging. they should be at least under the same scrutiny as the appropriation bills. and what the budget is saying is that we can get some savings from these tax expenditures, and...
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Mar 25, 2013
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it has an explosive energy about 25 times the bomb used in hiroshima or about 470 kill lo tons of tnt. that asteroids exploded more than 60 miles from the city, and yet it still injured a thousand people. the major impact was about 500 times the explosive energy of hiroshima, it destroyed an area about the size of metropolitan area d.c. it would not quite fit in this room, but it's not much larger. so i'd like to start a video just to show you what the solar system really looks like. this is an anatomically accurate depiction of all the known asteroids in our solar system, so this is actually off the jpl database. so the ones on the outside part of that, that is the asteroid belt. those are the ones that won't hit the earth, those are the ones between mars and jupiter. the ones inside are called the near-earth objects, and those are the ones that could hit earth, and those are the ones dr. green talked about and we're concerned with. there's about 10,000 known near-earth asteroids which have been discovered through nasa's space program. however, we know that this is only a tine nib fr
it has an explosive energy about 25 times the bomb used in hiroshima or about 470 kill lo tons of tnt. that asteroids exploded more than 60 miles from the city, and yet it still injured a thousand people. the major impact was about 500 times the explosive energy of hiroshima, it destroyed an area about the size of metropolitan area d.c. it would not quite fit in this room, but it's not much larger. so i'd like to start a video just to show you what the solar system really looks like. this is an...
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Mar 25, 2013
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they could build power plants somewhere else or energy. and so all parts of the company were getting less capital and less investment and less attention and i don't believe i'm here to help, but in the case of this company we can give money. we told our investors we had the balance sheets to invest. making more pilots that we have ever made, spending more money that has been spent in 20 years. we doubled our capital, improve service and improved fiber notes and speed up and get ready for x 1 which requires more bad with. we are trying to up walk that tightrope with investors, but when push comes to shove we want to invest in the businesses. in the case of nbc universal i have never seen a company that has more opportunities. it's all but getting the right people and letting them decide if it's right. >> would you have some time to relax with you like to watch on television? your favorite show. >> i hate that question. golf. i said relaxing. i tried now to see some of every show, every film to every news series that we do. i cannot do what
they could build power plants somewhere else or energy. and so all parts of the company were getting less capital and less investment and less attention and i don't believe i'm here to help, but in the case of this company we can give money. we told our investors we had the balance sheets to invest. making more pilots that we have ever made, spending more money that has been spent in 20 years. we doubled our capital, improve service and improved fiber notes and speed up and get ready for x 1...
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Mar 21, 2013
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i come from a state with a thriving renewable energy sector and two years ago we agreed to let the tax credit expire. that was $60 billion in ten years, mr. president, $60 billion. i don't understand why the oil industry can't follow ethanol's lead. i'm prowpped of the work they're doing. -- prowpped of the work they're doing. i've seen the drilling in north dakota. it's increased our domestic oil production and decrease our dependency on foreign oil but i don't need the oil companies need $40 billion. that's a lot of money to reduce the debt. we can make other commonsense changes. one i would propose is with the home mortgage deduction, near and dear to everyone's heart, cap it in $500 in a home. if you buy a million dollars home, great. you get up to $500 billion in -- $500,000 in that home. all told, the proposal coming out of senator murray's budget reduces the deficit by approximately $2 trillion. if enacted, our debt will continue in a outyou downward path where our debt-to-gpped raish -- g.d.p. -- debt-to-g.d.p. ratio would be 70%. one in that range would result in a 1% increase
i come from a state with a thriving renewable energy sector and two years ago we agreed to let the tax credit expire. that was $60 billion in ten years, mr. president, $60 billion. i don't understand why the oil industry can't follow ethanol's lead. i'm prowpped of the work they're doing. -- prowpped of the work they're doing. i've seen the drilling in north dakota. it's increased our domestic oil production and decrease our dependency on foreign oil but i don't need the oil companies need $40...
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Mar 22, 2013
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energy intensive jobs are the first to go when your utility prices get uncompetitive. your ability to compete in the world marketplace, the price of american made goods, what families pay at the pump, what they pay for heating and cooli cooling, what they pay for every american product they make would be impacted by a carbon tax or fee. and i urge the support of this amendment. mrs. murray: mr. president if. the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: i yield one minute to the senator from rhode island. the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. whitehouse: mr. president, except for perhaps in congress and in the boardrooms of exxonmobil, it is no longer credible to deny what carbon pollution -- the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. mr. whitehouse: -- it is no longer credible to ignore what carbon pollution is doing to our atmospheres and to our oceans. we aid and abet that harm by subsidizing carbon, distorting the market, by violating the rule that the cost of a product should be in its price. nonrepealable laws of
energy intensive jobs are the first to go when your utility prices get uncompetitive. your ability to compete in the world marketplace, the price of american made goods, what families pay at the pump, what they pay for heating and cooli cooling, what they pay for every american product they make would be impacted by a carbon tax or fee. and i urge the support of this amendment. mrs. murray: mr. president if. the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: i yield one minute to...
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Mar 22, 2013
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nobody knows what somebody over here in the mickey leland energy fellowship funding is doing compared with the new area rural competitive technology grants program. here's the other thing we found as we have gone through all these programs is that we have people who apply for a grant, people who apply for a grant and get it from one of these programs, turn around and go over and apply for the same grant from another program. so it is easy to see when you can continue to see multiple programs. even to get efficient in our federal fleet we have five different programs, 20 different agencies just to try to put fuel efficiency in the federal government. we started out with electronic health records systems for veterans and military, we have ten different programs within that. not one program. not two. but ten. just one other. here's green buildings. we listed that. multitude of agencies, multitude of programs. every department in the federal government has a green building initiative separate and apart from a central area where it ought to be, probably associated with the national institu
nobody knows what somebody over here in the mickey leland energy fellowship funding is doing compared with the new area rural competitive technology grants program. here's the other thing we found as we have gone through all these programs is that we have people who apply for a grant, people who apply for a grant and get it from one of these programs, turn around and go over and apply for the same grant from another program. so it is easy to see when you can continue to see multiple programs....